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They sent an email a few minutes after I posted, saying that their fulfillment centre dropped the ball and they're escalating internally. I guess complaining on HN worked. Hope the…

Summarizing the dispute, for anyone interested: Rebble's "one red line" is "there has to be a future for Rebble in there." They fear being replaced/made irrelevant after Core build…

From my experience working on SaaS, and improving ops at large organizations, I've seen that "on-call culture" often exists inversely proportional to incentive alignment. When engi…

Needs (2015)

Wouldn’t be the first. See also Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, and Bonaire (to name a few)

The usual answer to a DDoS from some users is to add rate limiting, not “remove the service”

I've been using Colemak for a little bit more than a decade now. Super happy with it. I switched while interning at a ~failing startup. I was a Canadian in the US, and had forgotte…

It's a nice way to say "Hello there :)"

Can you cite a source on the Japanese connection? I don't see anything obvious in their Wikipedia pages. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist * https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

After some years of international travel, we've found a way to reduce jet lag using intentional sleep/wake timing. We apply patterns used in NTP to gradually guide your body's natu…

I once interned at an easily google-able Secondlife competitor. They fought against NSFW content for a long time, but then figured out how to fix it by: 1. Incentivizing users (wit…

Soft deletion always feels at odds with privacy-related "right to have data deleted" laws. Would be super interested in a technical writeup on how they do this.

Will's a great communicator, and quite personable: I know this because I've worked with him for a few years. I don't think it's bravado, SRE is a common industry term.

@dang: here's a better version without scroll lag https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...

I've been wondering: if this robot is only flipping fries, could it be made by putting the basket on a simple track, and adding an actuator to move the basket along a track? Why ne…

Does "tightly coupled with the database" work, in practice?

Interesting! Do you find that returning an array of errors works in practice? Most validation I’ve seen looks like: raise error if foo raise other_error if bar This pattern turns i…

The article is about REST API design, not JSON APIs! It’s a whole different ballpark.

The error messages could be better yet. The example uses a different code per issue, for instance: "user/email_required". Most integrators will build their UI to highlight the inpu…

Major difference in Canada is the # of banks. The big five dominate[1] unlike in the US where there are 100+[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_and_credit_union... …

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -Sinclair

Once as a new grad I asked (after he gave a talk on the virtues of oss) why the newly released Wolfram language wasn’t open source. He called me naïve, said that my question was ch…

Some smart TVs already ship with sim cards. It just requires a deal with AT&T/Tmo/etc.

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